Jenni Chiu wrote about taking the word feminist back. She calls it the F-Word. Feminism has become a word that people are afraid to identify with in our society and that is a shame, because being a feminist is a beautiful thing. True feminists believe that men and women are equal. A feminist is someone who subscribes [...]
Doyin Richards is my friend. He's a cool dude who is raising two girls in southern California. In case you were wondering, his name is pronounced Do-ween. On the land known as the Internet, you may recognize him from his blog "Daddy Doin' Work," where I had the pleasure of guest posting. You also might remember [...]
You're a writer. You're a writer if your mind feels ignited by an idea and you must find a way to transmit that idea from your brain to paper, notebook, computer. You're a writer if there are words in you that are dying to be heard. These words. You can't stop them. You can't hide [...]
"Damn girl, is all that yours? Let me get some, just a little bit. I'll marry you!" It was the year 2000. I was 19. I was walking down 4th Avenue in Brooklyn. I was wearing a black shirt and jeans. A man yelled those words at me. He spoke to me as if I were [...]
J.C. Hannigan is a novelist that writes plot driven romance and suspense novels. Collide is her first novel. Tell us about Collide. Collide is about a broken girl who has closed herself off from the world around her...until she falls hard for her 12th grade English teacher. He is drawn to her too, and they [...]
This morning my 3 and 3/4 year old daughter and I were about to leave the house to get on New Jersey Transit for visit a dear friend of mine. She came racing down the hallway with a giant pink suitcase. "You can't take that with you. It's too big for the bus." I told her. [...]
Sunday 2:00pm My six year old son Ari started crying. "What's wrong?" I asked " I really want to see Equestria Girls 2. You said we could see it today." It was true. I did tell him that we would see this My Little Pony based film on a Sunday. Unfortunately, when I searched online [...]
A prerequisite to being a writer is this: you must have some significant level of self-doubt or insecurity. You must question your ability to mold words into a thought-provoking sentence. Everything you write is up for criticism by you. I often think to myself: This is crap. What am I writing? That doesn't sound good. No one is going [...]